Ah, internet comments are wonderful

I usually avoid reading them only out of fear I'll plunge in and never resurface. This was in response to a NYT article about the discovery of fossils of a very large dinosaur that appears to have been covered in something like down feathers.

Michael Antebi     New York NY

Short Reminder:
On December 9, 2010 in The New York Times, science writer Nicolas Wade wrote: "Anthropologists have been thrown into turmoil about the nature and future of their profession after a decision by the American Anthropological Association at its recent annual meeting to strip the word ‘science’ from a statement of its long-range plan."

The American Museum of Natural History has a life-sized African diorama with a hairy male and female homonids walking upright—based on the finding of a set of footprints! Ian Tattersall paleogeneticist said they debated whether they had eyebrows or not !

This whole field has proven again and again that many of these researchers have lied and continue to lie. The most brazen—and unfounded—theories are proclaimed only to find the research was faked or non-existent.

Read pro-evolutionist Bill Bryson's best seller "A Short History of Nearly Everything" and discover on almost every other page the charlatanism, chicanery, lies, outright fraud—even murder—rampant in the sciences—especially paleontology.

Murder!

Double awesome is this super-earnest response to the comment by another reader:

DocM    New York

Lying is not what's happening. There are possibilities for multiple interpretations of archeological data, and scientists in the field are very emphatic in stating their ideas--more so than in most areas of science. If my interpretation differs from yours, it doesn't mean that either of us is lying, it's just that we need more conclusive data.

Ack, I can't stop.